The Nebraska Trucking Association named Nance Harris its interim president. Harris fills the position left open by the death of Ralph “Bud” Cuca, who succumbed to cancer April 17.

WASHINGTON — The General Accounting Office told Congress last week that it could raise truck taxes or authorize more toll roads to help boost transportation infrastructure investment and the Highway Trust Fund.

Preclearance and weigh-in-motion, or WIM, often go hand in hand, but it is not always that way.

Three organizations provide electronic systems that enable trucks equipped with transponders to zip past ports of entry and weigh stations in 30 states without stopping, yet the service has been embraced by only a small portion of the nation’s interstate truckers.

Federal and state officials are not doing enough "to defend against the alarming threat posed by individuals who seek to fraudulently obtain" commercial driver licenses, said a new report by the Department of Transportation's inspector general.

U.S. officials slightly eased recent security restrictions on trucks crossing the Hoover Dam, but the highway over the dam remains off limits to most trucks and all 18-wheelers.

In response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, many have seized upon the commercial driver license as a tool to protect the country from truck-borne violence.

A new and tougher commercial driver licensing test could be coming soon to a state near you. A group of state licensing officials working on revising the CDL exam hopes to test it this summer on prospective truckers trying for their licenses. br clear=all>

To be the official mover of a professional football team takes guts, determination and the willingness to move a whole lot of sneakers.

LONDON -- Thousands of trucks crammed full of money and shrouded in security crept out from secret warehouses around Europe earlier this month as banks began receiving shipments of euros in preparation for Jan. 1, when the new currency becomes legal tender in 12 countries.